March 19--Russians occupy Archawa.
March 20--Turks reported to be four days' march from Suez Canal.
March 23--Turkish force operating against town of Suez is routed.
CAMPAIGN IN FAR EAST.
March 12--It is reported from Peking that nine Germans, among them the
German Military Attache at Peking, who is leading the party, escaped
from Tsing-tao when it fell, and have made their way 1,000 miles into
Manchuria, where they are trying to blow up tunnels along the
Trans-Siberian railway; Russian troops are pursuing them.
CAMPAIGN IN AFRICA.
March 21--Official announcement is made that General Botha, Commander in
Chief of the Army of the Union of South Africa, has captured 200
Germans and two field guns at Swakopmund, German Southwest Africa.
NAVAL RECORD--GENERAL.
March 1--Norwegian steamer reports ramming a submarine off English
coast.
March 2--Bulgaria protests to Austria, Russia, and Serbia against mines
in the Danube; diligent inquiry in England fails to produce any evidence
supporting report that British superdreadnought Audacious, wrecked by
mine or torpedo on Oct. 27, is about to be restored to the fighting
line.
March 3--Allied fleet silences three inner forts on the Asiatic side of
the Dardanelles; Berlin report says British cruiser Zephyr was damaged.
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